Button-fastener



No. 6|3,373. Patented Nov. l, I898.

T. E. JONES.

BUTTON FASTENER.

(Application filed Aug. 5, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TOWNSEND E. JONES, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,373, dated November1, 1899.

Application filedAugust 5,1896. Serial No. 601,794. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TOWNSEND E. JONES, of New Haven, in the county ofNew Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inButton-Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings and the lettersof referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawings constitute part of this specification.

My invention relates to devices for attaching buttons to garments; andit consists of the hereinafter-described improvements inbutton-fasteners, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, whereinFigure 1 is a sectional view of my improved 'fastener in positionattaching a button to a garment, the transverse bar and the twisted loopbeing shown in elevation. Fig. 2 is a sectional view at right angle tothat shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the fastener.

The construction of my improved buttonfastener shown in the drawingscomprises a single ring A, serving conjointly with the transverse bar Fas a base, supporting or retaining the button when affixed to thegarment, and a single loop B engaging with the eye of the button.

All parts of my improved button-fastener are integral and are made ofone piece of wire. Ring A is formed by bending the wire appropriatelyand setting the end 1 into the bend of the bar F, extendingapproximately through and partly beyond the center of the ring. Bar Fterminates at some distance from the ring to permit the eye of thebutton to be slid upon the bar and into the loop B, which isapproximately in the center of the ring. The end of the bar F is bentinto a hook O, slightly diverging downwardly from the plane of the mug.

Loop B is formed by a single coil upon the bar projecting above theplane of the ring to permit its being passed through the material of thegarment to which the button is to be attached and is twisted tointersect with the bar F. Bends n and n overlap in the line of the bar.There is, however, a sufficient clearance between them (transversely tothe bar) to admit the eye of the button when turned approximately inline with the bar. Thus the loop permits theeye of the button to beslipped in by a twisting turn of the fastener, and while allowing it afree swing, facilitatin g the buttoning and the unbuttoning of thegarment, prevents absolutely any sliding of the fastener in the eye ofthe button, or vice versa, and consequently obviates the neces sity ofpinning or sewing on the fastener to the garment.

The fastener is used for affixing buttons to a garment in the followingmanner: The eye D of the button E is passed through a slit in thegarment to which it is to be applied. Then hook O is passed into it andby a twisting turn of the fastener the eye D of the button is broughtinto loop B. Then the loop B is drawn upwardly in the slit of thegarment, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, in which position the button issecurely held, though having an absolutely free swing. The eye of thebutton cannot be disengaged from the loop or slide along the bar.

-I claimas myinvention and desire to secure by Letters Patent Abutton-fastener comprising a single ring and an integral bar and loop,all made of one piece of wire; the bar extending from one edgeapproximately through and beyond the center of the ring and terminatingshort of the other edge, and the loop being twisted in a plane.

intersecting with the length of the bar and projecting above the planeof the ring.

In, testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscrib ing witnesses.

. TOWNSEND E. JONES. Witnesses:

FRED. G. EARLE, GEO. D. SEYMOUR.

